Sentences with phrase «live narrator»

Deep within it lives our narrator Flora 717, a worker bee from the sanitation division of her colony.

The second approach is to have the sun be a sort of all - powerful, mythic - but - living narrator, reminding us how omnipotent it is to life on earth.

Not exact matches

«In opening to the outside world, China's pursuit is not to only make our lives better, but to make the lives of others better,» the narrator says.

The narrator tells a story of Sharon and Russ who put their life savings into two tiny technology stocks.

Secular autobiography and the classic novel are unimaginable without the superior point of view of a narrator looking back on a life of errancy that will lead to a transformative experience, which will in turn produce self - understanding.

For while he keeps his authorial distance from the angry narrator of Lancelot, there is no mistaking Percy's basic sympathy with his Nietzschean madman who prefers war to «what this age calls love» and who had rather «die with T. J. Jackson at Chancellorsville [than] live with Johnny Carson in Burbank.»

Given the way it is hitting the narrator, it can not be dismissed as a mere force like poison — i.e., at the least he needs to think about what in his life has led him to feel it so strongly for her.

The narrator tells the story of his life as a barber living in the mid-2Oth century in a tiny Kentucky town called Port William.

But we are the advantaged disciples because we are listening to an omniscient narrator informing us of events and actions in the life of Jesus that his original disciples do not experience.

The novel's protagonist and narrator is twelve - year - old Hayat Shah, whose life changes when his beautiful, devout aunt, Mina, comes to stay with his family in suburban Milwaukee.

He is perceived by the widow, by the narrator, and finally by us, as a bearer of the power for life.

It is not surprising that the man who wrote a pseudo-review about a nonexistent book, a man who spent three years writing a biweekly on foreign books and authors, should write «Pierre Menard,» a story (composed in the form of an obituary) whose narrator is the reviewer of a nonexistent author's life works.

In place of a clumsy exposition scene, Updike's narrator has Rabbit recall, at surprisingly appropriate times, the myriad events, people and places that shaped his life.

I spent a year of my life living as Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, after I had answered a simple newspaper ad: «Waterfront 1BR Cottage.

Despite the powerful cohesion of the tribal life, the readjustments in Palestine produced a period of comparative individualism which in retrospect looked to the narrator like moral anarchy.

On the other, it belongs to the longer tradition of American «going home» songs — you know, those songs where the narrator leaves city life to go back home, probably to stay.

In his earlier works, especially his internationally famous first novel, The Moviegoer (1961), the outward events do not matter really so much as the narrator's witty meditations on his own inward life and the life of the world.

9 - 20, I Kings 1 - 2), Elijah found a brilliant narrator, whose original brief account of a few episodes from the prophet's life has unfortunately been augmented with some well - intentioned but tedious or offensive details.

Finally, lest there be any confusion on the audience's part, he makes explicit toward the end of the text, just as the other narrator did at the beginning, that things are really quite, simple: «Does life ever seem mysterious?»

She is the most relatable of narrators, even though as the former lover of a prince, now married to a real life rock star, she has lived a life about which most women only fantasize.

Narrator: Did you know babies spend as much as 18 hours a day asleep during the first year of life?

Michelle co-authored the chapter «Tree Squirrels: Narrators of Nature in Your Neighborhood» in the National Science Teachers Association publication Citizen Science: 15 Lessons that Bring Biology to Life with two of her Nature Museum colleagues.

Narrator: In the first hour of life, most healthy babies will be cleaned and examined right at their mother's bedside.

What is your favourite book?A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, a sequence of 12 novels that look at political, military and cultural life over a 50 - year period in the 20th century through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Jenkins.

When the black boy appears on the screen, the narrator says, «Because he lives in a poor neighborhood, this 6 - year - old will be forced into a failing school.»

Attenborough is famous as the creator and narrator of the BBC Life series.

In one scene, the narrator baptizes a woman who, from his perspective, sees the mysterious things of life even better than he does.

[A] tantalizing fluffy cautionary tale about the urge toward self - destruction and just how larger - than - life one's own life could become, or at least if you're likely to remain the year's most unreliable onscreen narrator.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

Perhaps the worst part of the movie is pretty much the ending where the narrator quotes the worst sequel baiting I have ever heard in my life.

Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside - down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear.

Anyway, suffice it to say that Sacks is not only no Frank Sinatra or John Wayne, he's not even much of a Billy Pilgrim, and while his blankness complements the passivity of the character (and Vonnegut's essentially fatalistic view of life), it creates a serious charisma vacuum that, in the novel, is filled by the narrator's generous philosophical digressions.

Wise and his stable of superlative actors brought to life Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, and by the time the film's narrator quoted those famous last words from the novel — «whatever walked there, walked alone» — it was time to go to bed and pray that my own bedroom door didn't start pounding.

It still focused on three resident doctors (now, like the show, in their third year)-- protagonist and regular narrator J.D. (Zach Braff), his cocky best friend Turk (Donald Faison), and the traditionally unassertive Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke)-- who were gradually becoming surer of their career calling while dealing with ups and downs of twentysomething life on the side.

Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father, The Ususal Suspects) plays the narrator and a live action character as well.

Swedish - born actress Kaisa Hammarlund will portray grown - up Alison, who acts as a narrator, trying to make sense of her life, as it unfolds on stage.

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

After a live - action opening introducing us to Christopher Robin's room and his stuffed animals (almost the same opening that tied together The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), the narrator jumps us straight into the Hundred Acre Wood, reading from an on - screen storybook about Pooh waking up and feeling a rumbly in his tumbly.

She lives with her unhappily married lawyer parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) and her younger brothers in the small island community of New Penzance, New England (the film was shot off the coast of Rhode Island), where, as a loquacious onscreen narrator (Bob Balaban) stiffly informs us, a devastating storm is due to hit in three days.

For those of you unfamiliar with Darkest Dungeon, the Ancestor, who serves as both narrator for the dreaded missions into the dark below, and mostly final boss of the Darkest Dungeon itself, was a real bastard in his early life.

But when Welles was too busy (read: «not broke enough») to come slip into the nefarious narrator's loafers, Curtiz went and got Claude Rains to play the part of a diabolical mastermind, who ends up staging his own set of sordid activities when his beautiful, thought dead niece (Joan Caulfield) reappears in his life, along with a rather curious gentleman (Michael North) claiming to be the husband she doesn't remember marrying.

Employing multiple third - person narrators, obscured quotations, and playful shifts in time, Trier (Oslo, August 31st) navigates lives in stasis: eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), a sociology professor who doesn't want to go back home to his wife and baby; dad Gene (Gabriel Byrne), stalling before a retrospective show dedicated to his late wife, Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), an acclaimed war photographer; and youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid), 15, living mostly in his own head, still unaware of the circumstances of his mom's death.

The soothing baritone of the preeminent movie narrator of modern times would alone militate for live broadcasts and webcasts of the court's oral arguments.

Never once do you wonder if our narrator, David, is going to be lured by the wild life (of course he is), and Teller's delivery is stiff and unconvincing; he's no Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.

is good, clean fun and Matt Damon, in the lead role as real - life biochemist / whistle - blower / embezzler and most unreliable narrator Mark Whitacre, has never been better.

Leonardo DiCaprio serves as the film's narrator and central figure as he explores the ravages of global warming on the planet, and the apocalyptic state we will be living in if action isn't taken immediately.

In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and, in his omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Anderson's script adaptation reproduces the lines faithfully, placing the words in the mouth of twee - harpist Joanna Newsom, who plays Sortilège, in the book a real - life friend to Doc, here cleverly refashioned by Anderson into a kind of ephemeral, roving narrator presence that helps underscore Doc's descent into some really serious shit.

«In the days before his execution he will agree to tell his story,» says Burnett's narrator, Alfre Woodard, «but after his death, his words will become the property of others, as his body was during his life.»